In 2019 she was conferred India's highest civilian award for women, the Nari Shakti Puraskar, for her contributions to India's armed forces, paramilitary forces and women's empowerment in defence research and development.

[1] Immediately after her post-graduation she applied for a job at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and was selected in 1988 itself.

[1] Her work includes evaluating life-saving devices, protective systems and frangible bullets.

In 2016, she led the TBRL team which developed less-lethal plastic bullets which have been used by Indian paramilitary forces for crowd control in Jammu and Kashmir.

[1] In March 2019, she was conferred India's highest civilian award for women, the Narishakti Puruskar "2018", by President Ram Nath Kovind, for her contributions to the women's empowerment in defence R&D and for her work on bulletproof vests and other protective systems for India's security forces.